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Review: House of Gucci
Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is an expensive movie about expensive people and expensive taste, and simply, it’s just fabulous. The overall verdict of the movie thus far is that it’s an overlong, glossy, campy mess, and said verdict isn’t exactly wrong. Yet here is a film that held me in its grip for just […]
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THE Best Picture: “The Godfather” (1972)
By Christian DiMartino Alright, so for the next month or so, on every Saturday and Sunday until Oscar Sunday (April 25th), I’m going to discuss random movies that happened to nab the Best Picture Oscar, and I’ll dive into whether or not these movies were actually worthy/ what their competition looked like. Some of these […]
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Review: Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone
By Christian DiMartino Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, which from here out will just be called The Godfather, Coda, is essentially legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola’s latest re-tinkering of one of his previous movies. In this case, it’s the much maligned The Godfather Part III. Coppola has also done touch […]
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First Time Watch: Cruising (1980)
1/2 By Christian DiMartino William Freidkin’s Cruising received three Razzie nominations when it was released in 1980, for Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Screenplay. Keep in mind, these are the same blokes who gave Stanley Kubrick a Razzie nomination for The Shining. Razzie voters thrive on nominating the biggest names imaginable. The nominations for The Shining clearly aren’t justified. Cruising is a […]
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First Time Watch: Frankie and Johnny (1991)
By Christian DiMartino Garry Marshall, who died in 2016, made a handful of movies that were enjoyable, and what came in-between was usually awful. For every Pretty Woman or Overboard, there were at least two of The Other Sister. A fraction of The Other Sister, one of the most accidentally offensively awful movies in existence, is too much. Marshall’s Frankie […]
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